Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: A system for providing spacecraft-based services, preferably including one or more spacecraft and one or more ground control elements, wherein the spacecraft can include one or more payloads associated with one or more organizations. A method for providing spacecraft-based services, preferably including receiving service requests, determining request assignments, and/or controlling spacecraft.

Abstract: A system for providing spacecraft-based services, preferably including one or more spacecraft and one or more ground control elements, wherein the spacecraft can include one or more payloads associated with one or more organizations. A method for providing spacecraft-based services, preferably including receiving service requests, determining request assignments, and/or controlling spacecraft.

Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: A system for providing spacecraft-based services, preferably including one or more spacecraft and one or more ground control elements, wherein the spacecraft can include one or more payloads associated with one or more organizations. A method for providing spacecraft-based services, preferably including receiving service requests, determining request assignments, and/or controlling spacecraft.

Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.

Abstract: A device (10) supports a substrate during the manufacture of semiconductor components. The device includes a substantially flat plate with an upper surface (11) on which the substrate can be positioned. In some embodiments, the device (10) is of inexpensive and simple construction and allows for the passage of a process gas in the direction of the substrate under certain manufacturing conditions, for example for supplying a protective gas to the substrate or having the substrate rest on an air cushion. The upper surface (11) of the plate is at least partially porous (14). Thus, costly and extremely precise machining of the device (10), as usually required in the current state of the art, is unnecessary, thereby making it possible to manufacture the device (10) at much lower cost.

Abstract: The invention to a device (10) for supporting a substrate during the manufacture of semiconductor components, comprising a substantially flat plate with an upper surface (11) on which the substrate can be positioned. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a device (10). The object of the invention is to provide a device (10) according to the preamble, which is of inexpensive and simple construction but which also allows the passage of a process gas in the direction of the substrate under certain manufacturing conditions, for example for supplying a protective gas to the substrate or having the substrate rest on an air cushion. According to the invention, the upper surface (11) of the plate is at least partially porous (14). Thus, costly and extremely precise machining of the device (10), as usually required in the current state of the art, is unnecessary, thereby making it possible to manufacture the device (10) at much lower cost.

Abstract: Centrifuge for depositing cytological material from a suspension onto a substrate, such as a slide, comprising a rotor having recessed therein a plurality of sedimentation chambers each providing a location for a substrate, said rotor further comprising for each sedimentation chamber a drainage channel leading from the bottom of the chamber to the periphery of the rotor, and a valve normally sealing said drainage channel, the drainage channel being constricted such that when the valve is enabled the fluid flow through the drainage channel is limited up to a predetermined maximum.